IRAN: AHMADINEJAD INVITES BOTH THE IRAQI AND SYRIAM PRESIDENTS TO TEHRAN FOR A PEACE POW WOW

Iran to Host Summit on Curbing Iraq Violence

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iran has invited the Iraqi and Syrian presidents to Tehran for a weekend summit with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to hash out ways to cooperate in curbing the runaway violence that has taken Iraq to the verge of civil war and threatens to spread through the region, four key lawmakers told The Associated Press on Monday.

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has accepted the invitation and will fly to the Iranian capital Saturday, a close parliamentary associate said.

The Iranian diplomatic gambit appeared designed to upstage expected moves from Washington to include Syria and Iran in a wider regional effort to clamp off violence in Iraq, where more civilians have been killed in the first 20 days of November than in any other month since the AP began tallying the figures in April 2005.

The Iranian move was also a display of its increasingly muscular role in the Middle East, where it already has established deep influence over Syria and Lebanon.

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And the United States receives another slap in the face, we will never learn...Soon, when the Iraq Study Group gives its report, we shall even talk to Iran so they can deliver the slaps in the face directly...

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